Report 2017-119 Recommendation 37 Responses

Report 2017-119: California State University: It Has Not Provided Adequate Oversight of the Safety of Employees and Students Who Work With Hazardous Materials (Release Date: April 2018)

Recommendation #37 To: Sacramento, California State University

To ensure the health and safety of employees working with hazardous materials, Sacramento should, by December 2018, make the required trainings available to employees and establish procedures for ensuring that the employees have received all required trainings.

1-Year Agency Response

Sacramento State continues to make laboratory safety, hazardous waste, hazard communication, and bloodborne pathogen training available to employees through online and live trainings and has established procedures for ensuring that employees receive all required trainings. The campus also continues to work on implementing a new learning management system that should facilitate this effort once in place.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

Sacramento provided evidence that it has made the required trainings available to employees and has established procedures for ensuring that the employees have received all required trainings.

6-Month Agency Response

Sacramento State continues to make laboratory safety, hazardous waste, hazard communication, and bloodborne pathogen training available to employees through online and live trainings. The campus Environmental Health and Safety office is working with relevant departments to ensure they understand their obligations with respect to employee safety training and to establish procedures for ensuring that employees have received all required trainings. The campus also continues to work with a new learning management system provider to develop a system to facilitate monitoring of employee training status.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Pending

60-Day Agency Response

Sacramento State makes laboratory safety, hazardous waste, hazard communication, and bloodborne pathogen training available to employees through online and live trainings. When faculty return to campus for the Fall 2018 semester, Sacramento State will follow up with the relevant departments to ensure employees have received all the trainings they require for working with hazardous materials. Additionally, the campus is currently working with a new learning management system provider to develop a system to facilitate monitoring of employee training status.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending

All Recommendations in 2017-119

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.